nunnery

Converse of object

• found: Once Queen of Kent, she founded a nunnery at Minster in 670 AD.
• enter: Suitable women could enter the nunnery at any time during their lives.
• ruin: These look very much like a ruined nunnery would look - ruined.
• establish: Thus the pious Bega was the first to establish a nunnery in Northumbria.
• build: She was shipwrecked here in the seventh century and was granted land to build a nunnery by the Lord of Egremont.
• say: And therefore, before her profession came out of the said nunnery into the country.

Preposition: in

century: Site of nunnery in the tenth century, probably destroyed in 1006.

Adjective modifier

• Benedictine: This was the church of a great Benedictine nunnery founded in Anglo-Saxon times on the river Test.
• cistercian: In England, most Cistercian nunneries probably accommodated about fourteen nuns and several male helpers.
• medieval: Remains of the town's medieval nunnery, however, were found to still exist.
• former: Mullan and producer Frances Higson were anxious to use a former nunnery in Dumfries as a location.
• old: Also in the vicinity is the oldest nunnery, the Stift of Wunstorf, established in 871 AD.
• small: The name is derived from an Irish saint, Bega, an abbess, who founded a small nunnery here about the year 650.

Modifies a noun

scene: Ophelia's burial is observed by Hamlet, in a stark parallel with the nunnery scene.

Noun used with modifier

century: The nearby remains of the 13th century nunnery are the idyllic location to experience the tranquility of this sacred isle.